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Thứ Hai, 31 tháng 8, 2015
Revisiting CPR Survival Rates Depicted on Popular TV Shows
Jaclyn Portanova and colleagues at the USC Davis School of Gerontology have just published "It Isn’t Like This on TV: Revisiting CPR Survival Rates Depicted on Popular TV Shows" in Resuscitation. Compared to Diem & Lantos' similar 1996 study, accuracy rates of television CPR depictions appear to not be improving. The authors found that Grey's Anatomy and House portrayed CPR as more effective than actual rates. Overall, the shows portrayed an immediate survival rate nearly twice that of actual survival rates....
Chủ Nhật, 30 tháng 8, 2015
Neysi Perez Buried Alive, Wakes Screaming Inside Coffin
Pregnant teenager Neysi Perez was buried alive. She was removed from her tomb and coffin after family members heard her screaming. Her mother said she was still warm. “We were all so happy. After being declared dead for such a long time, everybody was saying that she had come back to life. We were all so happy." (Independent)&nb...
Kevorkian "Coma" [EOL in Art 111]
In "Coma" Jack Kevorkian depicts an unconscious patient being slowly pulled into the mouth of a macabre death mask. Helpless. The death's head resembles the opening of a CAT scan machine, a symbol of modern medical technolo...
New Futility Case: Siner v. Kindred Hospital Indianapolis
The Court of Appeals of Indiana issued a decision that allows a family to proceed with its medical malpractice action alleging that a hospital's unilateral DNR order caused the patient's death. Facts"October 26, 2007, eighty-six-year old Geraldine Siner became a patient at Kindred Hospital. Geraldine suffered from advanced dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease and as a result could no longer care for herself. Geraldine’s son, John Siner,...
Thứ Bảy, 29 tháng 8, 2015
Kevorkian "Very Still Life" [EOL in Art 110]
In "Very Still Life," Jack Kevorkian's message, "though somewhat capricious, nebulous and indefinable, is clearly underscored by intense feeling. Brilliant colors highlight the melancholoy age-old balance between the warmth of life and the iciness of death, spiced with the sardonic humor of irony.""The disquieting mood portends inescapable doom for the frail symbol of individual life and seemingly callous extinction of its evanescent aura. The age-old...
Supreme Court of Nevada Asked to Determine Brain Death Standards
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Nevada ordered a hospital to continue physiological support for a dead woman pending briefing, argument, and adjudication. (I summarize the lower court proceedings here.)Today, the family filed its opening brief. Basically, they make two arguments.First: "The District Court incorrectly interpreted Nevada's Uniform Determination of Death Act (NRS 451.007(1)(b). The plain language of the Act specifically requires that if there is any functions of a person's brain, including his...
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